DENVER – Garrett Atkins matched his career high with six RBIs and had four of Colorado’s 23 hits in a 19-4 rout of the slumping Milwaukee Brewers on Wednesday that completed a three-game sweep for the Rockies.

Colorado had its biggest day at the plate since a 20-1 victory over San Diego on Sept. 20, 2005, when the Rockies also had 19 runs and 23 hits.

Jeff Francis (13-5) was the beneficiary, improving to 8-0 in his last 11 starts. He allowed three runs and six hits in five innings.

Atkins was 4-for-4 with two doubles, and Troy Tulowitzki went 4-for-5 with two doubles, a home run and three RBIs. Matt Holliday tripled and drove in two runs, and Brad Hawpe hit a two-run homer for the Rockies.

Prince Fielder hit his NL-leading 34th homer for the Brewers, who have lost four straight and 14 of 20. Milwaukee began the day one game ahead of the second-place Chicago Cubs in the NL Central.

Yovani Gallardo (4-2) was rocked for a season-high 11 runs and 12 hits in 2 2-3 innings. He hadn’t given up more than four runs in his previous seven starts.

Atkins’ two-out RBI double out the Rockies ahead in the first, and the Rockies made it 8-0 in the second – scoring six runs with two outs. Ryan Spilborghs led off with a homer, Holliday had a two-run triple, Todd Helton doubled in a run, Atkins had an RBI single and Hawpe hit his 20th homer – a two-run drive.

Colorado made it 11-0 in the third on Kaz Matsui’s RBI single and Atkins’ two-run single.

Fielder hit a two-run homer with one out in the fourth.

Notes: Former Brewer Greg Brock, an area high school baseball coach, was a pregame guest of the team. … Milwaukee 2B Tony Graffanino left after the first inning with a sprained right knee. … Colorado’s seven-run second inning tied a season high for runs in an inning. … The Rockies placed C Edwin Bellorin (strained hamstring) on the 15-day DL and purchased the contract of C Alvin Colina from Colorado Springs.

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